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Oceanside, NY: Dabor Science Publications, 1977. Hardcover. Near fine. Red cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

Classics of Medicine Library, 1986. Used - Very Good. 1986. Hardcover. Full leather. Gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Silk Ribbon. Clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Medical History).

The Classics of Medicine Library, 1986. Hard cover. Very good/No jacket. Leather-bound facsimile of 1793 book. Cover, gilded edge, and inside pages are clean and unmarked.

Birmingham: Classics of Medicine, 1986. Reprint. hardcover. fine. xxviii + 314 pages, 8vo, full leather, a.e.g. Birmingham: Privately Printed for the Classics of Medicine, 1986. A fine copy.<br/> <br/> "The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as independent science." GM 2281. Facsimile of the London, 1793 edition.<br/> <br/>

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

BiblioBazaar, 2009-11-26. Paperback. Good.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

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Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library,. Near Fine. 1986. Hardcover. A specially bound facsimile reprint of the 1793 edition. Octavo, bound in black leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon book mark. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, else fine. ; 314 pages .

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-05-28. Paperback. Good.

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Classics of Medicine Library, 1986. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Number 1304 of a special privately printed limited edition. Full genuine leather hardback binding with 22-karat gold stamped spine, in nearly new condition: firm and square, sharp corners, no snags. Contents crisp and tight, no inscriptions, no pen-marks, just a publisher's bookplate bearing a former owner's name. Size: 215mm x 140mm. Full reprint of the original 1793 edition. Thus a handsome book in very presentable condition.

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Birmingham: The Classics of Medicine Library, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. XXVIII, 314, [2]pp. Original gold-tooled leather with gold lettering on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Remarkable facsimile edition of Baillie's famous work "The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body." When published in 1793, it was the first book on the subject in English, and the first to make the morbid anatomy a subject itself. Rather than giving the history and symptoms of every case, as had been the trend, Baillie dealt with the morbid appearances of each organ in turn. The work is limited in so far as it discusses the thoracic and abdominal organs and the brain, and leaves untouched the skeleton, muscles, nerves, and spinal cord. He was the first to define cirrhosis of the liver, to distinguish renal cysts from the rare cysts of parasitic hydatids of the kidney, and to challenge the opinion that death was often due to a growth in… Read More

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